a special collections archive at wesleyan university. i also came across a very valuable and useful oral history that was conducted by the john f. kennedy presidential library if 1978 with brigadier general god friday mc quen, and this just falls into the category of pure dumb luck. i happened to be working at the kennedy library on the day 31 years after he conducted the interview that mc cue's interview was declassified, so within hours of it being open to the public, i was able to get access to it and use it for the first time and i will talk later on about some of the insights that this oral history arises, but finally, because i'm asking different questions of the material, there's a lot of information that's been open to the public for a long time, that other people looking into this issue have not focused on. there's at both, the johnson library and at the national archives in washington, d.c., for example, there is a report conducted by the secret service, where all the secret service agents involved in the presidential detail an

they were at wesleyan university and a special archive collection. i also came across a very viable and useful oral history that was conducted by the president, the jfk presidential library in 1970 with brigadier general godfrey dequeue. mccue was president kennedy's air force aid on november 22, 1963. this just falls into the category of sheer dumb luck. i happen to be working at the kennedy library on the date, 31 years after he conducted the interview that make use entity was declassified. so within hours of it being open to the public is able to get access to and use it in this book for the first time. i want to talk a little late on about some of the insights that his oral history provides a. but finally because i'm asking different questions of which are there's a lot of information that is open to the public for a long time. that other people looking into this issue have not focus on. both the johnson lover and at the national archives in washington, d.c., there is a report conducted by the secret service will wear all the secret service agent

regretted doing that and she blocked manchester from using those notes so for example to the wesleyan university archives and all of the interviews are there except the ones with mrs. kennedy and robert kennedy and some of the other kennedy people were there but a lot things are blacked out, so that was part of the agreement that manchester made with them. and she wanted him to remove this material. she also was concerned. she felt and robert kennedy believed the portrait that was simply to negative a supporter of lyndon johnson. it was so bad the port of lyndon johnson even the kennedy people objected and robert kennedy was afraid people will see this as nothing more than a political attack by the kennedys against the sitting president at a time when robert kennedy is now in the senate. so the kennedys did not accept this. if you don't want to accept this view that, this negative portrait that he beans of lyndon johnson, going through what manchester's is for example lyndon johnson was simply at the whim of the secret service agents when he's in parkland hospital he refuses to make decisions on